War and Peace
A Collaborative Project
The ability to stage a project of this magnitude has come about through the
unique collaborative links between the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the Rachmaninov
State Conservatoire in Rostov-On-Don and Scottish Opera.
This production of
War and Peace marks the fifth year of a collaboration in which the orchestra of Scottish
Opera and the company’s senior specialist artisans and technicians act as mentors for the Royals
Scottish Academy’s young musicians, costume makers, set builders and stage technicians throughout
the process of creating a new opera production. Academy musicians must audition for their
place in the orchestra pit.
The project also builds on the successful partnership between the Rachmaninov
State Conservatoire in Rostov-on-Don and the Academy. This encompasses a burgeoning staff and
student exchange programme, educational collaborations in jazz, composition, keyboard, traditional
music, Musicworks projects with young people and the Russian premiere of
War and Peace in Rostov on March 11 2010. More information on the connection with Rostov
is available here (link to
www.rsamd.ac.uk/ccc).
Involved in the UK side of the project are:
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Approximately 60 orchestral musicians, and 20 production and technical staff from Scottish Opera
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70 vocal undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
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26 music students from RSAMD playing side-by-side with Scottish Opera’s orchestral players
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6 students from Rostov-on-Don performing in the UK
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20 technical and production students from the RSAMD working on costume, set, lighting and design
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8 make-up students from James Watt College in Glasgow
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and many more staff in mentoring, and advisory capacities.
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